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johnbcoughlin 89 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Doing nothing at work

The quoted section is about stepping in early with the right knowledge to fix an incident that's in progress. That is, putting out the fire.

Arainach 89 days ago [–]

It begins with `preventing or` before talking about mitigating/fixing. There's no such thing as "preventing early" in firefighting.

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